Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Plate numbered '45' in upper right corner., Dedication below title: To the Right Honble the Lord Walpole these four plates are humbly inscribd [sic]., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music for voice on two staves with interlinear words., Opening words: Fill ye bond wth [sic] flowing measure ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate number erased from this impression.
"Satire on butchers showing a calf as a butcher holding an axe and a cleaver, with a meat tray as a breastplate, a candle in his hat, and a steel hanging from his apron. In the background, the enclosure of Smithfield market (with street lamps against the fences) in which a group of men with sticks and dogs chase a runaway ox; the entrance to St Bartholomew's hospital and the distant dome of St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Enclosed in a delicate frame a sheep's fleece hanging between verses below; these allude to the butcher's manly strength and his wife's consequent faithfulness."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier state
Description:
Title etched within image., Originaly published ca. 1740 by George Bickham. See no. 2470 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade., and Two columns of verse below image: Old Aesop who in morals did surpass, wrapt in a lion's skin, produc'd an ass ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Smithfield Market, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Butchers, Equipment, and Street lights
Title from item., Date of publication based on subject of satire., Temporary local subject terms: Games: shuttlecock., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801, Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-1761, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
Title from item., Date of publication based on subject of satire., Temporary local subject terms: Games: shuttlecock., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801, Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-1761, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
"Satire on Cardinal Fleury and French dejction at the success of Admiral Vernon, coupled with condemnation of Robert Walpole for his initial opposition to the war. Fleury, finely dressed in cardinal's robes, rises from a chair and teeters on the edge of a cliff, looking in alarm at a medallion with a laureated head lettered, "Admiral Vernon"; under his arm is a scroll, lettered, "His iron will geet ye better of my Gold./G[o]d, he'll take all our Aquisitions in America." July 1740. Behind Fleury is a wall covered in graffiti: a gallows from which hangs a fat man (Walpole) lettered, "No matter yt he is long than ye Gallow's"; a man with the head of a bird who pushes a wheelbarrow; a windmill; a donkey laden with a pack; the heady of an angry Spaniard with a bird on his hat; another Spaniard, whole-length, leaning on a stick, a dog biting the tail of his cloak and two birds flying around his head; in the middle of the wall is a circular opening through which can be seen "Poor Hosier's Fleet"; a cock lettered, "Crown'd twice", stands on the wall. A pole rises from the wall, bearing a severed head, lettering identifies this as "Wall/Pole"; a ribbon hangs from the mouth lettered, "What Pity is it we can die but Once to serve our Country/Ad. Cato." Behind the wall on the right, is an imposing building flying the union flag; three crowns rest on clouds, and lightning flashes in the sky. The scene is set in a rococo frame with verses below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Preferment of the barber's block
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Bickham the Younger by British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below title: --Age thou art sham'd! Rome thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! ..., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
According to act, July 1740. Sold at [the] Black-moor's Head opposite Surry Street, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Hosier, Francis, 1673-1727.
Subject (Topic):
Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748, Naval operations, Cardinals, Gallows, and National emblems
"Satire on Cardinal Fleury and French dejction at the success of Admiral Vernon, coupled with condemnation of Robert Walpole for his initial opposition to the war. Fleury, finely dressed in cardinal's robes, rises from a chair and teeters on the edge of a cliff, looking in alarm at a medallion with a laureated head lettered, "Admiral Vernon"; under his arm is a scroll, lettered, "His iron will geet ye better of my Gold./G[o]d, he'll take all our Aquisitions in America." July 1740. Behind Fleury is a wall covered in graffiti: a gallows from which hangs a fat man (Walpole) lettered, "No matter yt he is long than ye Gallow's"; a man with the head of a bird who pushes a wheelbarrow; a windmill; a donkey laden with a pack; the heady of an angry Spaniard with a bird on his hat; another Spaniard, whole-length, leaning on a stick, a dog biting the tail of his cloak and two birds flying around his head; in the middle of the wall is a circular opening through which can be seen "Poor Hosier's Fleet"; a cock lettered, "Crown'd twice", stands on the wall. A pole rises from the wall, bearing a severed head, lettering identifies this as "Wall/Pole"; a ribbon hangs from the mouth lettered, "What Pity is it we can die but Once to serve our Country/Ad. Cato." Behind the wall on the right, is an imposing building flying the union flag; three crowns rest on clouds, and lightning flashes in the sky. The scene is set in a rococo frame with verses below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Preferment of the barber's block
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Bickham the Younger by British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below title: --Age thou art sham'd! Rome thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! ..., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
According to act, July 1740. Sold at [the] Black-moor's Head opposite Surry Street, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Hosier, Francis, 1673-1727.
Subject (Topic):
Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748, Naval operations, Cardinals, Gallows, and National emblems
Title from item., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional three stanzas below. Part for flute at foot of page., Plate numbered '42' in upper right corner., "To ye tune of ye Black Joke"--Lower right corner of plate., Opening words: Whence comes it that ye shining great, to titles born and awful state ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, volume1., Watermark: countermark E., and Annotation in an unidentified hand at bottom of sheet, recto.
publish'd according to act of Parliament Septr. 1740.
Call Number:
740.09.00.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Danger and folly of going to law
Description:
Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The design is composed of a large rectangular image at top center of sheet and another image below it, both flanked by three small images in form of vignettes on each side., Central upper panel is a reissue of a plate published ca. 1733: Law is a bottomless pit. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1990., Verse inscribed below image: Two neighbors sought revenge: to law they went, thro' passions blind, spurr'd on by discontent ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Courtrooms, Law & legal affairs, and Judicial proceedings
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music for two voices on three staves with interlinear words. Additional four stanzas below., Plate numbered '22' in upper right corner., Opening words: Here's to thee my boy, my darling, my joy ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, v.2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate number erased from this impression.
Title from item., Printmaker's name etched on bed frame in the image., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: This impudence of age, whence can it spring? ..., Temporary local subject terms: Matrimony -- Beds -- Candle tables -- Picture frames -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Bible: Joseph and Potiphar's wife., Printmaker identified on recto in unidentified hand as "Sr. the Bickham" and dated "July 1768.", and Mounted to 23 x 31 cm.
